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A popular consumer goods company needed a strategic transformation to find its place in the growing health and wellness segment. The board hired a new CEO to lead the charge – a solid start but that alone was not enough. To make the transformation successful, the top leadership team would...

There is no question of the importance of innovation right now. It is a critical muscle for getting a business back to growth. But there is one innovation skill that is surpassing the rest in the current climate. It is a skill that some of the worlds’ most innovative companies...

When I first started running my company, The Film Festival Doctor, during the first two years of trading, I began to work extremely long hours which consisted of 16-hour days, seven days a week and surviving on five hours sleep each night. Inevitably, I was burnt out but I still...

Some people may want to work part-time to add a little extra to their monthly income and others may start their career from scratch. It is hard to be asked about your previous experience and not have anything to respond to or present in your CV. On the other hand,...

The statistics around employee engagement are startling. According to Gallup, for the past 10-20, around 45-50 percent of US Employees are disengaged, with a further 10-15 percent actively disengaged. I use this graphic as a perfect example of what that really means and the impact that it is having on...

The biggest danger facing an accomplished CEO isn’t another lockdown, competition or technological obsolescence. The looming threat, which is a product of success, is CEO Syndrome: the externally-inflated ego that leads a CEO to be certain of their own judgment and allows them to self-insulate from honest feedback and diversity...

On occasion, CEOs will tell me that they were once part of a CEO peer advisory group or forum and eventually quit because they were not receiving any value. To be fair, it may not have been the right group for them, or maybe it was a group that was...

The design and delivery of organisational e-Learning requires the carefully crafted amalgamation of multiple professions if it is to be executed at a high standard. Despite the fact that professionals are increasingly required to be multi-skilled in today’s world of work, effective e-learning cannot be produced in silo as it...

The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the transformation of work at an incredible pace. As many countries go through safety restrictions once again, companies around the world are realizing that there’s no turning back. Having tested work-at-home en masse, many employees want to retain this option to some degree into the...

From finding an apartment, finding your new network of friends, daily life questions, or simply staying updated on what’s happening the expat community, Facebook groups are very useful wherever you go in the world. These groups are also a hub for local Greeks interested in mingling with the expat community....